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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- air-formed
Meaning
Rhea and Hera receive the epithet in direct address, and the west-wind breezes are air-formed at LXXXI.6. The word describes them through the form of air, not merely through upward motion. Its recurrence permits comparison across the figures but does not require their identities or functions to coincide. The apparatus’s ἀερόμορφοι in LXXXI is an unexpanded spelling of the same formation.
Places to read
- Hymn XIV · Line 11Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἠερόμορφε; ἠερόμορφοι
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XIV.11; XVI.1; LXXXI.6